Improvement in horseshoes



F. SBNPT & U. LOROH. Horseshoe.

No.198,4l9. Patented Dec. I8, 1877.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

FRED. SENFT AND ULRICH LORCH, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSESHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 198,419, dated December18, 1877; application filed November 6, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRED. SENFT and ULRICH LORCH, both of the city andcounty of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a newand useful Improvement in Horseshoes, which improvement is fully setforth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, inwhich- Figure 1 is a top view of the shoe embodying our invention. Fig.2 is a bottom View thereof. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical sectionthereof. Fig. 4 is a rear view thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

Our invention consists of an overshoe adapted to be applied to a shoefixed to the hoof, and employed when streets and roads are in icycondition, said shoe being longitudinally and laterally adjustable. Y

Referring to the drawings, A represents a shoe, in the toe and heelportions of which there are transversely extending slots B, spurs orcalks a being fixed to the shoe at proper places.

The shoe is made sectional, the rear sections of which are connected tothe front section by bolts C, which pass through respective portions ofboth. sections, the heads of the bolts playing in slots b of thesections of each side.

To the heel portions of the sections there is attached a bolt, D, whichis adapted to clamp the shoe firmly in position, and clips E areemployed to assist in securing a flrm connection of the shoe to theh'oof.

During icy and slippery weather the shoe A is fitted to the shoe alreadynailed or secured to the hoof. In this case the calks of the fixed shoeenter or project into or through the slots B. The bolt D is tightened,and the shoe A is firmly clamped to the fixed shoe and to the hoof ofthe animal, whereby the animal is shod with a shoe having ice calks orspurs a.

When the streets and roads are in better condition the overshoe A isremoved, and the animalfagain uses the shoe remaining fixed to its hooThe bolts C, acting as axes, permit the shoe to be expanded andcontracted laterally, and the slots b permit the shoe to be lengthenedand shortened, whereby the overshoe may be adjusted to xed shoes andhoofs of diii'erent dimensions, the adjustment being retained bytightening the nuts of said bolts C.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The overshoe having openings B, and formed in sections which arelongitudinally and laterally adjustable, substantially as and for thepurpose set forth.

2. The overshoe A, formed in sections, and having slots B, incombination with the axial bolts C, having heads tted in slots b of thesectional sides of the shoe, and with the clamping-bolt D, substantiallyas and for the purpose set forth.

FRED. SENFT. ULRICH LORCH. Witnesses:

J oHN A. WrnDnRsHEn/i, JNO. A. BELL.

